When we quantify a space, we tend to measure physical attributes like shape, size, depth and colour. Yet long before we consciously assess these features, our body and mind are…
In every designer’s career comes a point where the idea of purity and simplicity is questioned by the complexities of the world. The idea that, at one point, was pure,…
In architecture, perfection often drives design. The flawless surfaces with no crevice in sight, the precision of edges and angles, seamlessness, and symmetry. These qualities are held as the silent…
Humans’ reliance on their visual sense was always preferred over other senses and is often associated with ‘Seeing is Believing’. This idea of image has pervaded our senses so much…
“We are spatial creatures; we respond instinctively to space” (Aronson, 2005) Architecture is more than just brick and concrete, it is more than a shelter or a structure, there is…
“Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or a symbol, but as an…
To stand on the highest mountain, to walk on a seashore at dusk, or to cross a desert, and arrive at a house built around a water body. At such…
“I believe that the language of architecture is not a question of a specific style. Every building is built for specific use in a specific place and a specific society.…
Atmospheres by Peter Zumthor, a book is a rather eloquent discourse by Peter Zumthor was published in 2006 after his lecture in the Wege Durch das land, a festival of…
Published in 1998, Thinking architecture is a thin, 65 pages book, which gives an epigrammatic view into the mind of Pritzker prize laureate, Peter Zumthor. It is an abstract of…
“What surrounds us is what is within us,” as written by T.F. Hodge, is a statement that holds under most circumstances. Architecture involves a symphony of spaces and the philosophy…
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the highest honor in the field of Architecture, it offers notability and prestige to the Pritzker prize winners and their work which render the qualities…